[Magdalen] Olympics

[Scott Knitter]

I think it makes sense to rotate the Olympics among the cities that have
hosted the Games before and still have the facilities and plans, or at
least a good part of them.

I used to have the PDFs of Chicago's lovely "bid books" for the Olympics.
Made one proud of this place. But I'm glad we didn't win. Still, the IOC
chairman could have pretended to be a little less enthusiastic about
eliminating Chicago. He seemed like he couldn't wait to make that
announcement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whsRhO0O0QE

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
wrote:

> You're just lucky Chicago didn't get it. Just read that it cost Rio double
> what was budgeted - IIRC, 13 billion. Boston was proposed for the 2024
> Olympics until a big uproar put a stop to that.
>
> The reason they announced the 2024 and 2028 Olympics is that those were
> the only two cities which were interested. Hosting the Olympics is
> extremely expensive with little return, so it's becoming harder and harder
> to find cities which want to do it.
>
> I recall a Tom Paxton song - "We can have the Olympics over at our house"
> (on the '84 Olympics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjKeKYlcAbQ.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Scott Knitter
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:05 PM
> To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: [Magdalen] Olympics
>
>
> The next three summer Olympics will be in Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and
> Los Angeles (2028). LA was just announced.
>
> Brings back memories of the big party Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley threw
> some years ago in Daley Plaza for the big announcement by the IOC of the
> finalists to host the 2016 Olympics. The big screen lit up, the crowd
> hushed, and the first words out of Mr Rogge's mouth were, "First of all,
> Chicago is out." Collective sigh and "Oh, <bleep>!"
>
> And that was the cue for Mayor Daley to retire. A five-second happening
> ushered in the new Rahm Emanuel era.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA